Local Jotlets From the Memoranda of a Hustling Jotter, Advice to the Ball Players. He Thinks The Virginian a Good Advertis? ing Medium. A Free Fight. Chicken Thieves. Knocked Down tor Impudence. To-morrow will lie election day. Friday will be memorial day in this City. I hero was no dookct in the Mayor's Court y esterday. '1 he work ou the Texas is boiug poshed ulieuil rapidly. Admiral Brown and family went to Lake Drumtaood yesterday. Tno streets have been thoroughly cleaned by the heavy rums. The ram yesterday afteruoon greatly interfered with all outdnur w.irk. j There was a row among a Lumber of ?bin'inn on King street lust nicht. Tho Raleigh excursionists returned boDie yesterday and reported having tiud an excellent time. The School liounl "ill havo to bold s&amp;gt; me&amp;lt; ting on tho 1st of dune to arrange lor the commencement exercises. The two courts were engaged yester - Slay in counting: the election ballots bo Joro turning them over to the Consta tiles. Reli...

liilii mm Great Historical Play for the Cotton States Exposition. Atlanta Proposes to Show the Com? mercial as Well as the Artistic Side ol the Drama. The His? tory of De Soto. Mrs. Lit? tleton's Plans. It Is tho object r * every great fair or exposition to present to the world :?ome enterprise it has not known before?to leave sor.to mountnent, as it were, to mark its success. At the last exposition of Paris there was the lafTal tower, tho World's fair had its Woman's building and tbo Ferris wheel, while rlic Cotton States and Internationa] exposition will present, runnug other tilings, the first druniatio exhibit from nn artistic and commercial atandp? &amp;gt;i it. There have boon 80 called dramutio exhibits, bnt tbey ?warn always on an individual basis, ex? cluding the general participation of tho dramatic world. When tho idea of thin exhibit was first considered by tho woman's board last October, Mrs. M. L. Littleton pro posed to undortnke the organization of such an euterpr...

[??Ulli tWl How a Railroad Engineer Proved Himself a Hero. He Was Stunned and Surrounded by Red Hot Coals and Burning Steam, Bui Stuck to His Post and Ap? plied the Brakes. His Mi? raculous Escape. Tip to lost week .T. W. Taylor, a vet? eran engineer of tho Ne\v York, New Haven ami Hartford railroad, better known Dill Taylor, was known by everybody along tho line ru? a hearty good fellow, witli a kind word for ail. an excellent and precautions "runner" ttnd was generally supposed to be' 'made tip" of the kind of natal tbal uever shrinks. Today he,is a proved hero. H'j bas faced the nior.t terrible of diuigors, and evou when thrown suddenly with? out tbo least warning within the very jaws of death, into a literal "hell of lire," staid within this seething fornnco long enough to perform his duty, uu almost incredible act of heroism. It wn6 dark, and tbo stillness of the Bight was dishirbcd only by the onrush and whir of the ponderous train. Bill Taylor's p&amp;lt;'t is engine No. ...

Veterans of the Southern Cause Warmly Welcomed in Houston. The "Bonnie Blue Flap;" Recalls Many inspiring Incidents of the ..ar. Miss Winnie Davis Receives a Grand Ovation. Gen. Gor? don M.'tkes a Speech. Br Southern Associated frei?. BquSTON, Tex., May 21.?It watt 0:")0 o'clock tfueu Geti. Joliu Ii. Gor ou tuountrd the platform. I In win looking the picture Of health and Lowed a graceful acknowledgment rs Mic tho crowd greeted him with lotnl ?jud long continued npplatife. Presi? dent Cleveland, of tho Confederate \'eteraun Relief Association, intro? duced Chaplain Gen. J, \V. .Jouos, who opened thu meeting with prayer. He Culled upon the (iod ol Abraham. Itiune and .Jacob, tkit* God of .lell'ersou Davis, to be with the veterans at thin reuuioo; to be with them in their deliberations; to bless every section of our common Coutitrv; to bless the maitned Confed? erates here nud at liotne and rallO tip frionda to eat a ihem iu days to come. President Cleveland followed iu n lirtL'f addr...

One of Illinois' Active Workers the Cause of Woman. Mrs. Celia Beau. Mrs. Cleveland in Demand as a Writer. Gentlemen Housekeepers. A Code of Honor for Women. Mrs. Mary E. Holmes. Mrs. Mary E. Holmes, who was re? cently elected president of tho Equal Suffrage association of Illinois for the tenth time, has been in nctivo work as an educator and reformer for many years. Shownsfor several years a teach? er and always took advanced grounds in Introducing the latest and newest meth? od*. She taught in Peoria, Ills., und in Berlin and Oslikosh, Win. Mrs. Holmes and her husband, Rev D. E. Holmes, wcro members of the first faculty of the Oshkosh Normnl school. A failure of Mr. Holmes' health made a change to ti business life a ne? cessity, and Mrs. Holmes widened her pphero of usefulness bv beginning the reform work that has occupied so much of her titao for the last 20 years Her home was in ttalva. Ills., where her husband was engaged in tho lumber business until about tlireo years ago, wh...

Some People Can Be Honest When It Pays Them. iVHss X Did Not Receive the Note, But a Charitably Inclined Woman Did. Tho Hen Chose a Strange Place to Hatch Her Young. An old resident of Rochester recently related au experience which illustrates in a rather striking fashion tho mean? ness and i 'shonesty which persons es? teemed by the community will descend to when thoy consider themselves se? cure from discovery. "Some years ago," ho paid, "I re? ceived a uoto from a youug woman, tho daughter of a friend of mine, which puzzled me greatly. She stated that she had run in debt to a considerable amount above her allowance, nud that several shopkeepers had threatened to Bend their bills to her father unless settlement should bo made within a certain time. Sho eaid she had been in similar diffi? culties several times before, and that her father had satisfied tho creditors "ii her promisiug to iucnr no debts in the future. His unger on tho last occasion had been so great t hat she feared t...

VOL. L?NO. 4. PRICE 2 CENTS The Fusion Ticket is Eleoted by a Large Majority. The Election in the County Passed Off Quietly. About 60 Per Cent, of Total Vote Polled. Party Lines Were Not Drawn to Any Great Extent. The eleotion took plaoa in Norfolk County yesterday aud tue fusion tioket was eleoted by majorities ranging from eoo to 1,200. The returDS show that about 60 per eont of the total voto was polled, which Is a small vote considering tbe bard work of tbe candidates fur tbo past ?i'xty days. Tbe eleotion passed oft quietly and fvt none ot tbe voting plaoes did any disorder oocur. Ho far as Tun Virginian,is informed 1Q0 charges of frauduluut voting bun been made. At Bevorul of tue pre ciuota tbe vote was kept by clerks rop vesenting tbe vnrioue candidates, aud atissnpposcd thru their count is cor? rect. The caudidates elected are, ^'rjaasurer, S. W. Lyous; Sheriff, A. C. Cr'oniwoll; Commonwealth's Attorney, It, O. Marshall; Commibaiouer Ko vo? gue. First District, J. D. Moore; ...

MEETING Of POLICE BQHRD The lawyers Taken to Task, Offi? cers Need Protection. Leaves of Absence Granted. Public Inspection. Want to Be Detec? tives. The Case of Officer Wade Continued Till Next Meeting. The Boaid of Police Commissioners tuet iu regular session yesterday after noon at the Mavor'B office at 5 o'clock. Present?Messrs. Boltou nud Verdier, Commisviouers. In the absence of Mayor Pettit.Capt. Boltou was called to the chair. The resolution passed at a former session of the Doard,grunting the uiuiu bera of the police force a seven days" furlough, was, on motion of Mr. Vor dier, ordered to go into effect at once, aud that the leave of abseuco he in the order of application, one luilough to 0&amp;gt; ich relief. It ?as ordered that tho members of the force appear in their new summer Uniforms on Tuesday, the 'JMh iiiht., and that there be a public inspection of tho force on the City Hail gtecu tit 12 o'clock on that day. 'Ihe application of Officers Wyuu and Curtis to be a...

PORTSMOUTH NEWS NEWS ?MITL! Publication of Occurrences as They Take Place, Day by Day. The Old Wood Dock. Selling Cabbage Without a License. A Marriage. Personals. Fined for Drunk? enness. Her 6th Birthday, Other Matters. Memorial Day. All the schools gave holiday's yeater dnv until Monday. The second torpedo boat for the Texas was lauucbed yesterday. Mr. Charles Kearn is iu the oity Visitiug Liu mother and sister. Cbiekeu thieves raided seven places Id Hcotttville Wednesday uight. Thursday next will bo Federal Memorial Day a national holiday. A number of the stores will oom ruonoo cloaiug at "i p. m. uext month. There is a scarcity of flowers caused by the ooutinued ruins and cool wea? ther. The doctors and druggist will soon play a game of hall for the benefit of the hospital. Tuo Portsmouth Junior Kitles will take au active purt iu the Memorial ex? ercises to day. Hon. .loaeph T. Lawless, Seoretary of Stale, wus iu the city yesterday and paid this ottice a social call. Central Su...

Colonel Cockerill Discourses trie Spartans of Asia. Their Fine Soldierly Bearing. When Once Roused They Do Not Know What Fear Is. Not Yet Thor? oughly Tested. Love of Country Their Slogan. The favorite discussion in foreign oir o'te.s here just now is the probable future of Japan from a military standpoint It Is beld that while Japan has shown won? derful skill, alortno.?3 and eonrage in her war with China she mot with such ellgbt resistance that one cannot judge rightly of her real fighting capabilities. It is difficult to fiud an Anglo-Saxon who can be induced to beliovo that a Japanoso army can bo created which will stand up man to man aud faco such troops as Kngland, Germany or tho United States could put in the Held. Of coarse the fighting persistency and endurance of tho Japanese in modern warfare have not been tested. We know that the Teutonic and Aunlo-Saxon races will fight all day and get up next morning and begiu where they left off. Wo Vnow that iu prolonged sieges, maro...